Old Master Paintings & Works on Paper Day Auction

Old Master Paintings & Works on Paper Day Auction

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Property from a Belgian Private Collection

Joseph van Bredael

River landscape with travellers and windmills; River landscape with figures on a ferry and waiting by the shore

Lot closes

July 4, 09:09 AM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Starting Bid

13,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Belgian Private Collection


Joseph van Bredael

Antwerp 1688–1739 Paris

River landscape with travellers and windmills; River landscape with figures on a ferry and waiting by the shore


the former signed with initials lower right: j B

a pair, both oil on copper

each unframed: 15.5 x 21.8 cm.; 6⅛ x 8⅝ in.

each framed: 24.5 x 30.9 cm.; 9⅝ x 12⅛ in.

(2)

Raousset-Boulbon collection, France;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 19 May 1950, lots 10 and 10bis (as Jan Brueghel the Elder);

Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 15 December 1980, lot 13 (as Jan Brueghel the Elder);

With De Jonckheere Gallery, Brussels, by 1980;

From whom acquired by the present owner in 2001.

K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Josef van Bredael 1688–1739. Die gemälde mit kritischem œuvrekatalog, Lingen 2006, pp. 45 and 163, no. E60, reproduced fig. 49 (only the river landscape with fishing boats).